Citizens of the United States: 美国公民们：
Your suffrages having elected me to the office of President of the United States, I have, in conformity to the Constitution of our country, taken the oath of office prescribed therein. I have taken this oath without mental reservation and with the determination to do to the best of my ability all that is required of me. The responsibilities of the position I feel, but accept them without fear. The office has come to me unsought; I commence its duties untrammeled. 你们用选票选举我担任美国总统；我已依照国家宪法，宣读并接受其中规定的就职誓言。我毫无保留地作出这一宣誓，决心尽自己最大能力完成一切应尽职责。我深知这个职位所承担的责任，但会毫无畏惧地接受它。这个职务并非由我主动谋求而来；我开始履行职责时不受任何束缚。
I bring to it a conscious desire and determination to fill it to the best of my ability to the satisfaction of the people. 我怀着清醒而坚定的愿望走上这一职位，将竭尽所能履行职责，使人民满意。
On all leading questions agitating the public mind I will always express my views to Congress and urge them according to my judgment, and when I think it advisable will exercise the constitutional privilege of interposing a veto to defeat measures which I oppose; but all laws will be faithfully executed, whether they meet my approval or not. 对于一切引起公众关注的重大问题，我都会向国会表达自己的看法，并依据判断加以推动；必要时，我也会行使宪法赋予的否决权，阻止自己反对的措施。但无论法律是否得到我的赞同，我都将忠实执行。
I shall on all subjects have a policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the people. Laws are to govern all alike--those opposed as well as those who favor them. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. 对于所有问题，我都会提出自己建议的政策，却不会违背人民意志强行实施。法律应当平等治理所有人，无论反对者还是支持者都不例外。要促使恶劣或令人反感的法律被废除，我不知道还有什么办法比严格执行它们更加有效。
The country having just emerged from a great rebellion, many questions will come before it for settlement in the next four years which preceding Administrations have never had to deal with. In meeting these it is desirable that they should be approached calmly, without prejudice, hate, or sectional pride, remembering that the greatest good to the greatest number is the object to be attained. 国家刚刚走出一场大规模叛乱；未来四年将有许多历届政府从未处理过的问题等待解决。面对这些问题，我们应冷静行事，不怀偏见、仇恨或地区优越感，并始终牢记，目标是为最大多数人谋求最大福祉。
This requires security of person, property, and free religious and political opinion in every part of our common country, without regard to local prejudice. All laws to secure these ends will receive my best efforts for their enforcement. 这就要求在共同国家的每一个地区，不受当地偏见影响，保障人身与财产安全，并保障宗教和政治见解的自由。凡旨在实现这些目标的法律，我都会尽最大努力予以执行。
A great debt has been contracted in securing to us and our posterity the Union. The payment of this, principal and interest, as well as the return to a specie basis as soon as it can be accomplished without material detriment to the debtor class or to the country at large, must be provided for. To protect the national honor, every dollar of Government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. 为了给我们和后代保全联邦，国家背负了巨额债务。我们必须安排偿还本金和利息，也要在不对债务人群体或整个国家造成重大损害的前提下，尽快恢复硬币本位。为了维护国家荣誉，除非合同另有明确约定，政府每一美元债务都应以黄金偿付。
Let it be understood that no repudiator of one farthing of our public debt will be trusted in public place, and it will go far toward strengthening a credit which ought to be the best in the world, and will ultimately enable us to replace the debt with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay. 必须让所有人明白，任何企图赖掉哪怕一文公共债务的人，都不会被委以公职。坚持这一原则将大大增强我国本应成为世界最佳的信用，并最终使我们能够用利率低于当前水平的债券置换现有债务。
To this should be added a faithful collection of the revenue, a strict accountability to the Treasury for every dollar collected, and the greatest practicable retrenchment in expenditure in every department of Government. 除此之外，政府还应忠实征收财政收入，确保每一笔收入都向财政部严格交代，并在政府各部门尽最大可能削减开支。
When we compare the paying capacity of the country now, with the ten States in poverty from the effects of war, but soon to emerge, I trust, into greater prosperity than ever before, with its paying capacity twenty-five years ago, and calculate what it probably will be twenty-five years hence, who can doubt the feasibility of paying every dollar then with more ease than we now pay for useless luxuries? 看看国家当前的偿付能力：十个州仍因战争影响陷于贫困，但我相信它们很快会迎来前所未有的繁荣。再把今天同二十五年前相比，并估算二十五年后的偿付能力，谁还能怀疑，到那时偿还每一美元债务，会比我们今天支付无用奢侈品的费用更加轻松？
Why, it looks as though Providence had bestowed upon us a strong box in the precious metals locked up in the sterile mountains of the far West, and which we are now forging the key to unlock, to meet the very contingency that is now upon us. 看起来仿佛上天在遥远西部贫瘠山脉中为我们赐下一个装满贵金属的保险箱；而现在，我们正在锻造开启它的钥匙，以应对已经来到面前的紧迫局势。
Ultimately it may be necessary to insure the facilities to reach these riches and it may be necessary also that the General Government should give its aid to secure this access; but that should only be when a dollar of obligation to pay secures precisely the same sort of dollar to use now, and not before. Whilst the question of specie payments is in abeyance the prudent business man is careful about contracting debts payable in the distant future. The nation should follow the same rule. 最终，我们或许需要建设通往这些财富的设施，联邦政府也可能需要提供援助，确保能够进入这些地区；但只有当未来承诺偿付的一美元同今天可以使用的一美元完全等值时，才应这样做，在此之前不应贸然行动。在恢复硬币兑付的问题尚未解决时，谨慎的商人会避免承担遥远未来才须偿还的债务，国家也应遵循同样的原则。
A prostrate commerce is to be rebuilt and all industries encouraged. 我们必须重建已经衰败的商业，并鼓励所有产业发展。
The young men of the country--those who from their age must be its rulers twenty-five years hence--have a peculiar interest in maintaining the national honor. A moment's reflection as to what will be our commanding influence among the nations of the earth in their day, if they are only true to themselves, should inspire them with national pride. All divisions--geographical, political, and religious--can join in this common sentiment. 全国年轻人因年龄关系，将在二十五年后成为国家的治理者，因此他们尤其关心维护国家荣誉。只要他们忠于自身，稍加思考便会看到，届时美国将在世界各国中拥有何等重要的影响力；这种前景理应激发他们的民族自豪感。地理、政治和宗教上的一切分歧，都可以围绕这种共同情感团结起来。
How the public debt is to be paid or specie payments resumed is not so important as that a plan should be adopted and acquiesced in. A united determination to do is worth more than divided counsels upon the method of doing. Legislation upon this subject may not be necessary now, or even advisable, but it will be when the civil law is more fully restored in all parts of the country and trade resumes its wonted channels. 与其争论究竟用什么方式偿还公共债务或恢复硬币兑付，更重要的是制定一项方案并共同接受它。齐心协力、决意行动，胜过意见分歧、争论行动方法。目前或许还没有必要、甚至不宜就此立法；但当全国各地的民事法律秩序得到更加充分的恢复，贸易重回正常渠道时，立法就会成为必要。
It will be my endeavor to execute all laws in good faith, to collect all revenues assessed, and to have them properly accounted for and economically disbursed. I will to the best of my ability appoint to office those only who will carry out this design. 我将努力真诚执行所有法律，征收全部核定收入，确保账目得到妥善核算，并以节约方式支出。我也将尽最大能力，只任命那些会贯彻这一原则的人担任公职。
In regard to foreign policy, I would deal with nations as equitable law requires individuals to deal with each other, and I would protect the law-abiding citizen, whether of native or foreign birth, wherever his rights are jeopardized or the flag of our country floats. I would respect the rights of all nations, demanding equal respect for our own. If others depart from this rule in their dealings with us, we may be compelled to follow their precedent. 在外交政策方面，我将依照公平法律要求个人彼此相待的方式对待各国；无论守法公民出生于本国还是外国，只要其权利在任何地方或我国国旗所到之处受到威胁，我都会给予保护。我将尊重所有国家的权利，同时要求它们同等尊重我国权利。如果其他国家在同我国交往时偏离这一准则，我们可能不得不仿效其做法。
The proper treatment of the original occupants of this land--the Indians one deserving of careful study. I will favor any course toward them which tends to their civilization and ultimate citizenship. 如何适当对待这片土地最初的居民——原住民——是一个值得认真研究的问题。凡是有助于他们接受当时所谓文明生活并最终取得公民身份的政策，我都会予以支持。
The question of suffrage is one which is likely to agitate the public so long as a portion of the citizens of the nation are excluded from its privileges in any State. It seems to me very desirable that this question should be settled now, and I entertain the hope and express the desire that it may be by the ratification of the fifteenth article of amendment to the Constitution. 只要国家仍有一部分公民在任何州被排除在选举权之外，选举权问题就可能持续引起公众争论。在我看来，最好现在就解决这个问题；我希望并期盼，宪法第十五条修正案能够获得批准，从而实现这一目标。
In conclusion I ask patient forbearance one toward another throughout the land, and a determined effort on the part of every citizen to do his share toward cementing a happy union; and I ask the prayers of the nation to Almighty God in behalf of this consummation. 最后，我请求全国人民彼此耐心宽容，也请求每一位公民坚定努力，承担自己应尽的份额，共同巩固一个幸福的联邦；我还恳请全国人民为实现这一圆满目标向全能上帝祈祷。